Get out, you old Wight! Vanish in the sunlight!
Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing,
Out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains!
Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty!
Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness,
Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

"I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity
of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only
who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast."
[Robert G. Ingersoll, Field-Ingersoll
Debate, Letter to Dr. Field. 1887]

"Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics
than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire
there were millions less than when he was born."
[Robert G. Ingersoll, Interview with New York correspondent,
Chicago Times, May 29, 1881, answering criticism by NY
ministers in response to his "Great Infidels" lecture]